About The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
- Released on January 09, 2010
This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.
Full Cast of The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
Renée Fleming
plays Princess von Werdenberg
Susan Graham
plays Octavian
Kristinn Sigmundsson
plays Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
Christine Schäfer
plays Sophie
Thomas Allen
plays Faninal
Plácido Domingo
plays Self - Host
Stephen Paynter
plays Leopold
Nicholas Crawford
plays Mohammed
Erica Strauss
plays Marianne
Bernard Fitch
plays The Princess's Major-Domo
Ronald Naldi
plays Faninal's Major-Domo
Ellen Lang
plays A Noble Widow
Charlotte Philley
plays A Milliner
Kurt Phinney
plays An Animal Vendor
Rodell Rosel
plays Valzacchi
James Courtney
plays A Notary
Eric Cutler
plays A Singer
Sam Meredith
plays A Hairdresser
Tony Stevenson
plays An Innkeeper
Jeremy Galyon
plays A Police Commissary
Crew of The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
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